Everyone has secrets, but some are so terrible that they can only be told anonymously online. Here are just a few. Content has been edited for clarity.
Fake Restaurant
“I’m in the UK and I run a fake restaurant on a delivery app. I registered a company, bought all the takeaway boxes from Amazon, signed up for a few delivery apps, made a few social media accounts, and printed leaflets that I drop in mailboxes. I re-sell microwave meals…On some meals, I add something to make them look better, like cheese. So far it’s at around £200 a day in revenue.
Nobody suspects a thing, soon someone will come for a sanitary inspection, but I’ll pass that check without any problems. It’s not illegal to operate out of your own kitchen. Yes, I am registered and will pay taxes. I have my certificates and insurance to run this place.
Should I feel bad? I feel kind of proud to be fair and free as a bird from the 9-5 life.”
What Happened To The 6K?
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“I’m very close to my in-laws. I don’t have much family of my own and they have always been great to me. They treat me like their own and I love them, despite what I’ve done. My in-laws are retired real estate agents and have an old colonial home with a built-in safe in the basement. They trust family members with the combination of it.
I had lost my job as an insurance agent and was struggling to find work. I went on Craigslist to sell furniture and found a man online who offered to pay me $5K for nude pics. I jumped at the chance because we were down to rice and beans in our house. I did it and he sure enough gave me $5,000. I used it to pay bills we were behind on and other things. I never told my husband I did this, and I told him the money came from back severance from the insurance agent I was owed.
The Craigslist guy wanted more pics of me. He wanted them to be dirtier, with me doing more stuff. I said no. He said if I didn’t he would take the pics he had of me and release them all over the Internet. I was scared but I still told him no. He emailed a pic of me to my husband’s email account. I have no clue how he got my husband’s email account but I got really worried then.
I told my husband I sent it from a fake email account. My husband was a little suspicious but he trusts me.
I got a hold of this guy and told him I was calling the cops. He said the pics belonged to him, so he could do whatever he wanted with them, and he had email proof of our transactions. I said I wanted them back and he said fine, for $6K. And if I didn’t every day he would send them to my mom, my sister, my friends, etc.
I went to my in-laws and took $6,000 from their built-in safe in the basement. I did the drop off like the guy asked and he sent me the pics. I never heard from him again, except a few weeks later I got an email that said, ‘I made copies.’
The in-laws then started asking why their money was short. They said they were short about $1,000. My husband doesn’t think it’s me because I came up with $5,000 so their bad check kept him from selling me out. But he was suspicious I came up with money when they lost some, and he asked me lots of questions. So the night my in-laws called for everyone to come over and discuss the safe being broken into. We showed up late to the family meeting and by then others had already accused each other.
I ended up off the hook. This was a year ago and no one has ever found out. My husband and I are in the process of leaving Pittsburgh and heading out west so this will all be behind me.”
Parking Tickets
“I ordered a batch of fake parking tickets off Amazon and left them wherever. Sometimes if nobody is around I make an effort and fill in all the details on it to freak them out before they get to the bottom and see it’s a fake.
Sometimes I just write something dumb in the comments and leave the rest blank.
I’ve left them on cars at my university that aren’t technically illegally parked, and on cars that are parked in no-parking zones at my grocery store. I especially do it when somebody is parked in a handicapped spot that’s not supposed to (no plate or hang-tag).
Local laws are sketchy on this, some would argue it’s misrepresenting itself as official and therefore illegal, but at the bottom of them, they say they’re fake. So others would argue the worst they could get me on is littering if the police actually cared enough to do something.”
